Well, I never did find that lost photoshop file, so I just redid the work. Turned out I didn't really have to do that much. I fixed Cyprus' location and I upped the size of the suggested names (actually, i made all the names a little bit bigger).

are a few that are still rather small. I know there might be little room, but I'd still look into upping the name sizes of those...and perhaps others, a little more. Otherwise this map is nearing an end!

are a few that are still rather small. I know there might be little room, but I'd still look into upping the name sizes of those...and perhaps others, a little more. Otherwise this map is nearing an end!

--Andy

Believe me, I tried with all four of those. I'm afraid thats as big as they get. If they're any bigger, they get even harder to read because the border lines interfere with the writing to much and you really have problems. Really they're not any smaller than the average for this map, they're just harder to read cause the border lines interfere.

Megalomaniac wrote:Not sure if anyone has mentioned this or the map has been corrected since but in the original it would be more accurate to swap the name tags for mesopotamia and assyria.

I'm not sure. Both empires controlled the other's area (plus more) at their height, so its tough to say. The map I used as a reference for this time period labeled the borders that way, so I think i'll just leave it.

I'm gonna go ahead and try and dot some of those i's, its something that bothered me also. When theres an "ri" (and theres a lot) it just kinda looks like an "n", so Caria looks like Cana, Syria looks like Syna, and so on. I'm gonna give it a shot a little later and i'll let everyone know how it worked out.

Megalomaniac wrote:Not sure if anyone has mentioned this or the map has been corrected since but in the original it would be more accurate to swap the name tags for mesopotamia and assyria.

I'm not sure. Both empires controlled the other's area (plus more) at their height, so its tough to say. The map I used as a reference for this time period labeled the borders that way, so I think i'll just leave it.

There was no such empire as the mesopotamian empire, mesopotamnia is the area between the tigris and euphrates, assyria had the northern part of it for quite some time, which is accurate to the map, but the region labelled mesopotamia is outside the area that is mesopotamia... anyway now I sound like a prat.

Perhaps empire was the wrong word to use, but there was a "mesopotamian" peoples, considered the first "civilization" in that they no longer relied on hunting and traveling constantly.

And yes, I realize its a geographic location between the tigris and the euphrates, but i'm not sure my map isn't showing that location as mesopotamia. Perhpas some parts of what would be considered that location are clipped off, but I think its generally located correctly.

try switching the shading on the water so that playable areas have the lighter vibrant shade of blue. the playable seas would then stand out more than the non-playable seas. as it is now the shade of the out-of-play water takes attention away from where the action is. seems like it would make more sense the other way around.